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    Norris Edwin Bradbury (May 30, 1909 – August 20, 1997), was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25...
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    director, serving from 1943 to December 1945, when he was succeeded by Norris Bradbury. In order to enable scientists to freely discuss their work while preserving...
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    and was named for the Laboratory's second director (1945–1970), Norris E. Bradbury. Among the museum's early exhibits, artifacts and documents from World...
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    explosive lenses, was carried out by the bomb assembly team headed by Norris Bradbury at Los Alamos on July 3. It was driven to Trinity and back. A set of...
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    1962, pp. 81–82 Hoddeson et al. 1993, pp. 57–58. Norris 2002, p. 244. Groves 1962, pp. 61–63. Norris 2002, p. 242. Groves 1962, p. 63 Bird & Sherwin 2005...
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    implies that Oppenheimer was being hypocritical. Despite an offer from Norris Bradbury, who had replaced Oppenheimer as the director of Los Alamos in November...
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    A Bradbury–Nielsen shutter (or Bradbury–Nielsen gate) is a type of electrical ion gate, which was first proposed in an article by Norris Bradbury and...
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    " as scientist Alvin C. Graves communicated to Los Alamos director Norris Bradbury. But, Graves continued, because high-yield shots were "dangerous" (as...
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    employees. He took over at a time of great change. His predecessor, Norris Bradbury, had rebuilt the laboratory from scratch after the war, and many of...
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    the University of California and Groves appointed Norris Bradbury as an interim replacement; Bradbury remained in the post for the next 25 years. Groves...
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